President’s Message

Special Feature

Year-end
Notes

High-Speed Information Access— Just a
Computer and Modem Away

’d like to start off this message by
thanking you for the opportunity
to serve another year as MetGCSA
president. I optimistically look
forward to the coming year.
I ’d also like to thank the board
members who have generously given
their time to our association: John
O ’Keefe (Preakness Hills CC), John
Carlone (Middle Bay CC), Earl Millett
(Ridgeway CC), Tim O ’Neill (CC of
Darien), Matt Ceplo (Rockland CC),
Will Heintz (Hampshire CC), Patrick
Lucas (Woodcrest CC), Dave Mahoney
(Siwanoy CC), Tim Moore (Knollwood
CC), Dennis Petruzzelli (Lakeover
National GC), Jeff Scott (The Apawamis Club), and Joe Stahl (Metro
Milorganite).
Welcome also to newly elected
board member Tony Grasso (Metropolis
CC). Having served on the board in
the past, Tony brings a great deal of
experience with him.
Speaking of experience, I tallied up
the number o f years that each of our
current board members has served on
the board, and I came up with a grand
total of more than 75 years’ experience.
The depth and breadth of these
people’s experience, coupled with their
outstanding dedication, goes a long
wray in helping us serve you, the mem­
bership, and in accomplishing the goals
of the association. (continued on page 3)

hese days, if your office isn’t
equipped with a computer and a
modem, you’re missing an impor­
tant link to a vast pool of knowl­
edge, information—and even job-en­
hancing conveniences. Here are just a
few o f the many windows of opportunity
a computer and modem have to offer:

I

✓

Anytime Access to TurfByte

Tapping into TurfByte, a bulletin board
system (BBS) that’s accessed by superin­
tendents around the globe, offers a
learning experience that’s hard to beat.
A simple menu system allows you to
navigate through the BBS’s three main
sections: the Bulletin Section, which
offers hot-off-the-press turf-related
information; the Message Section, which
allows you to pose questions to—and tap
the knowledge of—a tremendous pool
of superintendents; and the Files Sec­
tion, which carries files—or public do­
main programs—you can download on
your computer.
“TurfByte is the best clearinghouse of

information I’ve ever seen,” says Middle
Bay Superintendent John Carlone, a
longtime TurfByte user. “I can’t believe
how much I ’ve learned from reading the
discussions that take place there.” A
discussion that instantly came to mind
was on fertilizers. “Golf course consult­
ants and superintendents from around
the country offered their observations
and firsthand experiences with various
products,” says John, who also remem­
bers being one of the first to know
about Tersan LSR being contaminated
with Atrazine. “When you log on to
TurfByte, you find out about things the
day they happen.”
John’s also profited from several of
the software programs carried on the
BBS: QjEdit, which works in conjunc­
tion with word processing programs and
checks grammar, punctuation, and spell­
ing, and a communications program,
Deluxe Reader, which has enabled John
to quickly download information from
the BBS to his computer—a tremendous
time and money (continued on page 4)

Also in This Issue

( 2 ) Invest in Your Future

( 2 ) Wintertime Educational Events
( § ) Will Heintz Recaps GCSAA Chapter
Relations Meeting

( 7 ) Read All About It: MetGCSA Takes Met
Area Team Championship
( 7 ) Letter of Thanks
( 7 ) Field Day Tributes

Into Alert

Invest in Your Future
t’s that time of year again—when
the Tri-State Turf Research Foun­
dation will be appealing to you to
contribute $150 of your budget
dollars toward research . . . research that
will benefit the quality o f turfgrass con­
ditions on your golf course and, just as
important, aid you in doing your job
more effectively and efficiently.
Watch for a mailing in early 1995,
and be sure to support this worthwhile
cause.
It’s a small price to pay for the
valuable benefits you and your golf

I

course will receive in return.
If you would like to speak to some­
one about the foundation’s work,
please feel free to contact any of the
Tri-State’s Met area reps: Joe Alonzi of
Westchester Country Club, 914-9676000 ext. 360; John O ’Keefe of Preakness Hills Country Club, 201-6940260; Tim O ’Neill of Country Club of
Darien, 203-656-0600; and Larry
Pakkala of Wood way Country Club,
203-329-8257.
Note: Corporate contributions are
also welcome.

President
JOSEPH ALONZI, CGCS

Westchester Country Club
Vice President
JOHN O’KEEFE, CGCS

Preakness Hills Country Club
Secretary
JOHN CARLONE, CGCS

Middle Bay Country Club
Treasurer
EARL MILLETT

Ridgeway Country Club
Past President

Upcoming Events

TIMOTHY O’NEILL, CGCS

Country Club of Darien
MATT CEPL0, CGCS

Rockland Country Club
WILLIAM HEINTZ

Hampshire Country Club

Educational Events

PATRICK E. LUCAS

MetGCSA Winter Seminar

Wednesday, January 11
Westchester Country Club, Rye, NY

1995 Professional Turf and Landscape
Conference

Wednesday, January 18
Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY
Registration cutoff date: December 30

NYSTA Turf and Grounds Exposition II

Wednesday - Thursday, February 1 - 2
Holiday Inn, Suffern, NY
Registration cutoff date: January 24

GCSAA Seminar: Irrigation Efficiency

Wednesday, March 8
Hampshire Country Club
Mamaroneck, NY

Woodcrest Country Club

Among the topics to be covered: biological controls
update, aquatic plant ID and control, golf course
renovations by computer, a prescription for sum­
mer patch, avoiding fungicide resistance.
For further information, call Will Heintz, 914-6986131.
Billed as “The Best Educational Experience for the
Green Industry,” this session will include talks on
such topics as “Turfgrass Renovation and Manage­
ment,” “ Surviving a DEC Pesticide Inspection” (by
Met member Mike Cook of Alpine), “Wildlife
Management in the Landscape,” and “ Noise:
Reduction Methods and Local Legislation.”
For further information, call 914-636-2875.
In addition to offering sessions on a variety of
current environmental issues and turf manage­
ment principles, the expo will feature several
sessions on how computers can aid your turf
management operation. It will include talks from
Met members John Carlone and Dave Mahoney.
For further information, contact NYSTA at 800873-TURF.
For further information, contact GCSAA at 913841-2240.

DAVID MAHONEY

Siwanoy Country Club
TIMOTHY MOORE

Knollwood Country Club
DENNIS PETRUZZELLI, CGCS

takeover National Golf Club
JEFFREY SCOTT, CGCS

The ApawamisClub
JOSEPH STAHL

Metro Milorganite
Executive Secretary
INEKE PIERP0INT

Tee to Green Staff
Editors
TIM MOORE

DENNIS PETRUZZELLI

914- 592-7829

914- 242-0706
Managing Editor

PANDORA C. W0JICK

Editorial Committee
SCOTT APGAR
BOB NIELSEN

LARRY PAKKALA
STEVE RENZETTI

Advertising Manager
DENNIS PETRUZZELLI

914- 242-0706

Happy Holidays to One and All!

Photographer
DOMINIC RICHICHI

Wishing you u n i your fa m ily u huppy, healthy holiday season and new year
The MetGCSA Board of Directors

TEE TO GREEN is published eight times a year. Copyright ©
1994 the Metropolitan Golf Course Superintendents Association.
ADDRESS: 49 Knollwood Road, Eknsford, NY 10523.

(2 )

Tee to Green

November/December1994

President's Message (coni.

1)

Year-end Notes
JAN 0 3 1995
Committee Notes

High on our list of priorities is maintain­
ing—and where possible, exceeding—
our present standards o f excellence in all
committee functions. In several areas,
there is no doubt room for improvement.
We’re always open to suggestions—and,
of course, a helping hand or two.
Here are few observations I ’d like to
share on several of our committee
functions:
• The Communications Committee: The
Tee to Green had an excellent year
financially in 1994. We actually had to
turn away advertisers. The one area
we’re still struggling to improve, how­
ever, is the production schedule.
You can help the Tee to Green staff
produce a more timely publication by
offering newsworthy article ideas or even
by penning an article from time to time.
It’s a win-win. You get your name in
print, and the Tee to Green establishes a
pool of readily publishable articles.
• The Tournament Committee: Our
monthly meetings have been so successful
that we’ve had to rewrite our bylaws to
put a cap on the number of golfers that
can participate in our golf events. Yet I
still hear complaints about the cost of
these meetings.
I assure you the Tournament Commit­
tee does everything in its power to keep
the cost of these meetings as low as
humanly possible.
• The Education Committee: This group
has done a fine job in finding speakers
who have timely and interesting subject
matter to discuss at our monthly meet­
ings. They’ve done an equally, if not
more, outstanding job putting together
our Winter Seminar.
This session has received rave reviews,
particularly from nonmembers who
attend and remark how they wish their
associations offered a seminar as informa­
tive as this one.
Our Field Day seminar is still in its
formative stages. O ur goal is to make it
as successful as our Winter Seminar, the
only difference being that the subject
matter is targeted toward green chairmen
and club officials.

Again, we welcome your thoughts
and topic ideas for any of our educa­
tional functions.
• The Social & Welfare Committee:
Our Social & Welfare Committee’s
mission is to develop functions that
provide us—and our families—with
fun, informal get-togethers. I consider
these functions just as important to our
job success and well-being as our
educational activities.
The Summer Social, Family Picnic,
and Christmas Party are what I call
“Attitude Readjustment Functions.”
They enable us to let down, relax, and
just as important, draw our families into
our professional world—a world we
often get so caught up in that we tend
to ignore the ones who care about and
support us the most.
If you have any suggestions for
future events, please let us know.
About Our Dues . . .

Over the past several years, the board
has worked very hard to keep the dues
stable. You have to realize, though,
that the services we provide are costly.
This year, we were saved from a dues
increase largely by the money we raised
from our Field Day. It also helped that
the Tee to Green was able to operate in
the black.
I can’t emphasize enough how im­
portant the Field Day is to our associa­
tion. I also can’t overemphasize how
important it is that we continue to
improve our support. This event comes
at a time of year when it takes little
effort to participate. So next year, let’s
see if more of you out there can attend.
A New Meeting Place

If you read the last issue of the Tee to
Green, you know that the MGA
recently opened its new building in
Elmsford, NY, next door to Knollwi
Country Club. You also know that tl
MGA is sharing its quarters with
jDC
numerous golf-related groups, inclucU | \
ing the MetGCSA.
\
In addition to providing us with
shared secretarial services and storage
space for our records, these offices offer

us aicoiiyenient location to conduct our
board and CQgimitteg meerfhgs.
Continued Growth and Achievement

I feel that the MetGCSA is one of the
most professional, and yet fraternal,
golf course superintendent associations
in the country. I also feel that we
didn’t get this way by resting on our
laurels. It’s taken many board mem­
bers many, many hours of hard work
and dedication to make this happen.
As I mentioned at the Annual
Meeting, as a member of the MetGCSA
since 1972, I ’ve seen the association
steadily improve every year. Every
president has bumped the association
up a notch by the end of his term. My
goal as president is to continue the
association’s growth and achievement.
We’re a great association; I’m striving
to make us just a little bit greater.
JOE ALONZI, CGCS
President

JAMES

SONS
Division of
J & B TRUCKING
7 Cottage Street
Port Chester, NY 10573

TRAP SAND
•ARJAC^JOI

« scmr

t^X^CRE
FOR TENNIS COU
& BASEBALL DIAMON
SAND FOR BUILDING
& CONSTRUCTION
TRAP ROCK
G

Tee to

ecember 1994

Special Feature (cont.

1)

High-Speed Information Access— Just a
Computer and Modem Away
saver, he says.
This BBS is on-line 24 hours a day
thanks to former Lawrence (Kansas)
Country Club Superintendent Duane
Patton, who is the TurfByte’s system
operator and one of its initiators.
(Duane’s now a sales rep with The Scotts
Company.)
To join fellow supers on-line, simply
call 913-842-0618 any time of day or
night. There’s no fee, only the cost of
the long-distance phone call—and the
communications software and computer
and modem, provided you’re not already
equipped.
For further information, contact
Duane Patton, 913-842-0592, or John
Carlone, 516-766-1838.
/

MetByte for Local News and Views

Up and running since April of this year,
MetByte is a BBS created by and for
MetGCSA members. Like TurfByte,
MetByte provides an open forum for
superintendents to hash out everything
from turf-related problems to the latest
and greatest in turf management tech­

niques. “Right now, we have about 15
Met superintendents on-line,’’ says
Siwanoy Country Club Superintendent
Dave Mahoney, who has accepted the
challenge of acting as MetByte’s system
operator. “It’s a great way to commu­
nicate with your peers. And the more
people who participate, the more
valuable the information exchange can
be.”
Among the topics discussed this past
season: using Redi-Seed vs. primed
seed; control measures for hyperodes
weevil; poa control with Prograss; the
effectiveness of turf rollers and the
Hydroject.
Dave keeps the BBS on-line between
6 a.m. and 5 p.m., and sometimes a
little later. The number is 914-3373459. As mentioned under TurfByte,
you’ll need communications software, a
computer, and a modem to go on-line.
If you’d like information on how to
join the growing number o f MetGCSA
MetByte users, you could refer to the
May 1994 issue of Tee to Green, pages 5
& 6, or contact Dave at 914-961-8698.

/ On-Demand Info From the Turfgrass
Information File (TGIF) Database

This bibliographic computer database
was designed by Michigan State
University’s Library to provide access
all published materials on turfgrassrelated topics and research. While
MSU’s Turfgrass Information Center
will track down—and send you—any
information you request (for a fee, of
course), you also have the option of
searching the TGIF database on your
own computer.
To do that, you must become a
subscriber and open an account with tl
Turfgrass Information Center. The
Individual Rate is a reasonable $75 per
year. In addition to allowing you acce;
to TGIF, you also receive a copy of the
VuePort software package for telecom
munications, 10 hours o f on-line time
credit on the MSU computer, a TGIF
user manual, the center’s quarterly
newsletter, The Sward, and The Turfyr
Index, which is produced twice a year
and provides author and subject listing
of all materials added to TGIF over a si

Tee & Green & In Between
available to the golf course industry—
even a four-foot wide washed roll!
Give us a call for information about
our selection of products, and our unique
harvesting and washing techniques.
• Bentgrass
• Bluegrass
• Washed sod
• Bluegrass-Ryegrass
• Bluegrass-Fine Fescue

W h e th e r your challenge is a dead­
line, a tee, a green, a fairway, a rough,
or a bunker surround, we have a blend
that fits your needs.
We understand the variety of
problems you face because we have
spent a great deal of time listening to
golf course superintendents. As a
result, Tee & Green Sod offers the
most complete product line

BEA
-INCORPORATED 401/789-8177 • 401/789-3895 (fax) • PO Box 418, Exeter, RI 02822
( 4)

Tee to Green

November/December1994

month period. There’s more: As a
subscriber, you’re also entitled to
significant price breaks and priority
processing for services.
For instance, if you’d like TGIF to
conduct the database search for you,
they’ll charge you $10 and provide a list
of articles published, in abstract form,
on the topic of your choice. The
turnaround time is generally 48 hours.
If you’re a nonsubscriber, the charge for
the same service is $40, and you could
have a long wait for your material, since
subscribers are always serviced first.
Another handy option: TGIF will
track down and supply a copy of just
about any article or research report in its
database. For subcribers, this service
runs $5 per document 20 pages and
under; for nonsubscribers it’s $8.
A local TGIF subcriber is Westchester
Superintendent and Met President Joe
Alonzi. “TGIF recently conducted a
search for me on the growth retardant,
Embark, and its effect on bentgrass.
They sent about 100 different abstracted
articles on the subject,” says Joe, who
also notes that the abstracts are often so
detailed that you needn’t track down
any of the complete articles for further
information.
You can access the TGIF database 24
hours a day, Friday through Monday.
On Tuesday through Thursday, the
database is on-line 18 hours. For
further information, call the Turfgrass
Information Center at 517-353-7209 or
800-446-TGIF.
/ At-Home Access to Your Office— and
Irrigation System

How many times have you wanted to
rethink the settings on your irrigation
system once you’d made the long drive
home? Now, with a communications
software program like PC Anywhere, it’s
possible. The only catch is you have to
1 ive a computer and a high-speed
nodem both at home and in the office.
Dave Kerr at Ridgewood uses PC
Anywhere to, in essence, bring work
home with him. “I can retrieve any­
thing and everything that’s on my
computer at work, including budget
spreadsheets and word processing

documents,” he explains. “I also like
being able to operate my irrigation
system from home. When the ESID
(Electrical Storm Identification Device)
shuts down my system after-hours, for
instance, I can reset it manually without
making the trip back to Ridgewood.”
Many superintendents with TORO
irrigation systems have received the
$120 PC Anywhere program for free—in
addition to numerous other extras when
they sign up with TO RO’s National
Support Network (NSN). “TORO
gives you the PC Anywhere software so
their support people can perform
diagnostic evaluations of your irrigation
system—and even send or receive files—
by modem,” explains Knollwood
Superintendent Tim Moore, who’s had
to consult with TORO about his new
irrigation system on a number of
occasions.
PC Anywhere is a Symantec Corpora­
tion program. For further information,

A
EGYPT
WHITE MARSH, MO

you can call the company in California at
408-253-9600 or stop by a local com­
puter software dealer.
END NOTE

If you’d like to explore any of these
resources further, please feel free to
contact the superintendents we’ve cited
here.
You might also be interested in at­
tending the Turf and Grounds Exposi­
tion II, which will run February 1 and 2
(See Upcoming Events, page 2).
Two of the supers we talked to for
this article, John Carlone and Dave
Mahoney, have been asked to speak at
this conference.
John’s talk is titled “Getting Up to
Speed: Self-Taught Computer for the
Turf Professional”; Dave will be speak­
ing about MetByte.
The expo will also feature speakers on
TurfByte and TGIF, two other resources
we mentioned in this article.

METRO MILORGANITE, INC.

Sterilized
Top
Dressing

For a HEALTHY ADVANTAGE over SEASONAL
PROBLEMS WE OFFER a WINNING LINE UP:

M ilorganité

(410) 335-3700
1-800-899-SOIL (7645)

EGYPT FARMS EXCLUSIVE!

All top dressing ingredients are thorough­
ly mixed and sterilized by indirect heat in
our special process. The sand particles are
actually coated with a mixture of top soil
and peat humus for a completely homoge­
nous mixture that will not separate during
handling and spreading.
Egypt Farms top dressing is formulated
especially for your area to specifications
recommended by leading universities and
testing laboratories.
• Computerized blending of soil mix­
tures for a superior growing medium.
• Custom on-site soil blending and
testing with a portable computerized
blender to meet your specifications.
• Bunker Sands
»Mulch
• Canadian Sphagnum Peat
Metro-Milorganite, Inc.

Distributed by:

(914) 666-3171

The Terre Co.

Maxwell Turf

(201) 473-3393

(516) 681-3032

Emerald
Isle, Ltd.
• Pana Sea
• Pana Seâ Plus
• SAND-AID
* THATCH-X

A qu& eat
Water *****

Country Club
FERTILIZERS
TOP DRESSINGS
BIOSTIMULANTS
SEED
PESTICIDES
GOLF COURSE ACCESSORIES
Rick Apgar

Scott Apgar

Joe Stahl

Metro Milorganite Inc.
DEPEND ON US FOR FOUR SEASON SOLUTIONS
(914) 666-3171 Fax (914) 666-9183
365 Adams Street, Bedford Hills, NY 10507

Tee to Green

November/December 1994

( 5)

Official Business

Will Heintz Offers an Inside View o f
G C S A A Chapter Relations Meeting
n September 25 and 26, Met
GCSA Board member Will Heintz
represented our association at the
GCSAA Chapter Relations Meet­
ing held at GCSAA Headquarters in
Lawrence, KS.
Will was one of more than 70 volun­
teer leaders from across North America
who attended the open-forum discus­
sion with members of GCSAA’s Board
of Directors and a special Chapter
Relations Planning Resource Group.
“The GCSAA used this meeting to
explore ways it could improve ties with
local associations,” says Will, who came
away from the session with a new appre­
ciation for the GCSAA’s work.
“It was clear after this meeting that
GCSAA does far more for its members
than provide a nice, glossy magazine. It
offers a credible voice in Congress and
in the media, protecting us from unjust
pesticide legislation or misperceptions
about our pesticide use,” he says.

“GCSAA also does a lot to enhance
the superintendent’s image: Running
TV spots during major televised tourna­
ments is just part of that effort—and
that alone is far more than any indivi­
dual association or superintendent
could do on their own.
“Right now, between 20 and 30 per­
cent of superintendents out there aren’t
GCSAA members,” he continues, “so
another part of this meeting was to dis­
cuss how “the national” could encourage
100 percent participation. There’s
strength in numbers, after all, and with
escalating environmental concerns, the
GCSAA will need all the support it can
get.
“GCSAA plans to continue these an­
nual meetings, and I’m glad. It allows
local associations to express their views—
and hash out their problems—and it
gives everyone a real sense that we’re all
in this together. We all share the same
concerns—and GCSAA is there to help.”

The Golf Course
Superintendent's Choice.
The Bunton Triplex G reensm ow er is no ordinary reel mower. You'll
know that the instant you see the clean, consistent cut it delivers on
your course greens, tees, collars, and approaches. It's equipped
with all the features that golf course m aintenance professionals want
in a riding greensm ow er and more.

Pro-Lawn,
Products you need,
people you can counton.
Whatever your
turf-management needs.
• FERTILIZERS
• CHEMICALS
•TU R F SEEDS
• NATURAL BASE
ORGANIC FERTILIZER
• HYDROSEEDING & EROSION
CONTROL PRODUCTS
• CUSTOM MIXING
• SUSTANEtm
• POLYON

Pro-Lawn has a
turf-management
expert in your area.
C ross River, NY
Rich Cooke

914- 883-5881

The future o f turf m anagem ent

BUNTON 22" and 26"
GREENSMOWERS

W hen it comes to greens mainte­
nance, the Bunton 22" and 26" walkbehind greensm ow ers are rapidly
becoming the industry standard.

BUNTON
TRIPLEX
GREENSMOWER

BUNTON

EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED BY

Westchester Ford Tractor, Inc.
Meadow St.
Goldens Bridge, NY 10526
Phone #: 914-232-7746
(? )

Tee to Green

November/December1994

Scorecard

Extra, E xtra1. R ead A ll A bout I t . . .

M e tG C S A Takes M et Area Team
Championship

Notable Notes

Field Day
Recognitions

ore than 300 turf and landscape
professionals attended the
ongratulations to the Met team of John Carlone (Middle Bay CC), Matt
October 18 MetGCSA Profes­
Ceplo (Rockland CC), Bert Dickinson (Willow Ridge CC), John Gallagher
sional Turfgrass Field Day at
(Racebrook CC), Tony Grasso (Metropolis CC), Will Heintz (Hampshire CC),
Westchester Country Club to view the
Earl Millett (Ridgeway CC), and Fred Scheyhing (Mount Kisco CC). They
event’s special clinics, equipment demos,
posted six, very strong scores to snatch a one-stroke victory over the Philadelphia
and numerous supplier booths.
GCSA and go on to win the Met Area Team Championship held October 19 at
The Green Chairman seminar, run in
Essex County Country Club.
coordination with the MGA, drew nearly
Essex County is a fine example of a C.H. Banks course. It’s characterized by
60 attendees.
rolling hills, sharp grade changes around the greens, and large swales throughout
Special thanks to Field Day Commit­
the putting surfaces. Host Superintendent Ed Walsh had the course not only in
tee Chairmen Joe Stahl of Metro Milorgreat shape, but also perfectly set up for the championship.
ganite and Jeff Scott of The Ap aw amis
Nine teams competed. The difference between the Met’s score and fourth place
Club and the 19 other committee mem­
was just five strokes—less than one a player. The low gross was won in a two-hole
bers whose hard work made the day a
playoff by Rob Bigley of the Northeast superintendent’s association. Rob was tied
success. They are:
at 75 with Chet Walsh of Philadelphia. Rob drained a birdie putt from the back of
• Joe Alonzi, Westchester Country Club
the 11th green to claim the title.
• Sean Cain, The Ap aw amis Club
Here’s how the nine teams stacked up:
• Bob DeMarco, Powelton Club
• Will Heintz, Hampshire Country
ú Ü Ú
448 MetGCSA ú ú Ú
Club
•
Tracey
Holliday, Sterling Farms Golf
449 Philadelphia GCSA
458 Pocono Turfgrass Association
Course
453 Northeast GCSA
471 Central Pennsylvania GCSA
• Byron Johnson, The Terre Company
453 New Jersey GCSA
479 Hudson Valley GCSA
ofNJ, Inc.
458 Mid-Atlantic GCSA
482 Connecticut GCSA
• Bob Lippman, Westchester T urf
Supply, Inc.
Low Gross Champion
• Mike Maffei, Back O’Beyond, Inc.
• Earl Millett, Ridgeway Country Club
75 Rob Bigley, Northeast GCSA (won in a playoff)
• Mike Miner, Superintendent
• Tim O ’Neill, Country Club of Darien
Closest to the Pin
Longest Drive
• Bill Ross, Fenway Golf Club
• Chris Santopietro, Wilfred
#6 Chet Walsh, Philadelphia GCSA
#18 Rich Wells, Northeast GCSA
MacDonald, Inc.
#9 Clark Bartholomew,
•
Fred
Scheyhing, Mount Kisco
Hudson Valley GCSA
Country Club
• Scott Stark, Fenway Golf Club
Special thanks to Essex County General Manager Robert Osborne—and again to
• A1 Tretera, T urf Products Corp.
Ed Walsh—for their assistance in securing the date. Thanks also to Golf Pro Bill
• Scott Tretera, Elmwood Country Club
Nash for donating a rain sweater and for supplying all the prizes.
•
Bob Welch, Rock Ridge Country
Next year, we’ll be traveling to Northeast Pennsylvania to play Huntsville Golf
Club
Club. Our host superintendent will be Scott Schukraft. Rumor has it some guys
•
Jeff
Wentworth, Pelham Country Club
are already setting up practice rounds!
We’d
also like to thank Westchester
DAVE MAHONEY
Country
Club for hosting the event and
Siwanoy Country Club
Dar Par Sales for supplying us with twoway radios for the day.
Letters
Last, but not least, we’d like to thank
the exhibitors whose participation made
the field day possible. As we’ve done in
the past, we’ve enclosed a list of exhibi­
tors in this issue with their area of spe­
cialty and phone number. Once again,
he family of Bert Jones would like to extend their appreciation to all who
we encourage you to show these people
participated in any way in the “Bert Jones Open” on October 11. Please
the same support they showed us during
accept our thanks for a wonderful day and evening and a lovely tribute to
our field day.
Bert.
- Mrs. Gerry Jones

C

M

A Special Thank You

T

Tee to Green

November/December 1994 ( 7 )

PATRON

DIRECTORY

Patrons listed on this page are supporting our association. You are encouraged to support them.
f t Feldman Brothers Inc.

Almstead Tree Co. Inc.
Kevin Wyatt: 914-576-0193
58 Becchwood Ave.
New Rochelle, NY 10801

David Feldman/Joe Schneider
T urf Maintenance Equipment
800-527-3898,203-443-3530

f t Fleet Pum p & Service G roup

f t A LPIN E, the CARE o f TREES

Donald Tiedemann
100 Calvert St., Harrison, NY 10528
914-835-3801

Excellence in Tree Care
NY: 914-948-0101
NJ: 201-445-4949 CT: 203-847-1855
A1 Preston’s Garage
Gary Shashinka: 203-924-1747
Massey Ferguson, Sales & Service
Shelton, CT 06484

f t Glenmore Landscape Service

Argento & Son Inc.
Turf Equipment: Parts and Service
Louis Argento: 914-949-1152
1 Prospect Ave., White Plains, NY 10607

f t Grass Roots T u rf Products Inc.

Glenn S. Moore
98 Hackgreen Rd., Pound Ridge, NY 10576
914-764-4348
Ken Rubik
P.O. Box 336, Mt. Freedom, NJ 07970
201-361-5943

f t Atlantic Irrigation Specialists Inc.

Greenacres Company
Golf Course Irrigation & Landscaping
266 Newtown Tpke., Redding, CT 06896
Dave Pijncnburg: 203-938-8618

Tim Pogue/Ed Santalone
620 Commerce St., Thom wood, NY 10594
800-878-8873

f t G row th Products, Ltd.

f t Blue Ridge Peat Farms Inc.

Clare Reinbergen
P.O. Box 1259, White Plains, NY 10602
914-428-1316

Topdressing, Peat, Humus, & Potting Soil
Gene Evans
717-443-9596

f t H aw thorne Bros. Tree Service Inc.

f t Bruedan Corp.

John Hawthorne/Charles Siemers
5 Center St., Bedford Hills, NY 10507
800-235-7035

Mike Gesmundo/Ron Shapiro
Ez-Go & Yamaha Vehicles
800-535-1500

f t Ciba T u rf & O rnam ental Products

James Barrett Associates, Inc.
Golf Course Irrigation Design & Consulting
Jim Barrett: 201-744-8237

Randy Moser NY/NJ: 215-343-5654
Steve Sears CT: 413-283-7877

f t DAF Services

f t James Carriere & Sons, Inc.

David A. Frechette
Irrigation Specialists
203-528-7362, FAX 203-528-0051

Bill Carriere
7 Cottage St., Port Chester, NY 10573

f t Dar Par Sales

f t LESCO, Inc.

Golf Course & Tennis Supplies
Outdoor Furniture Dominic A. Richichi
914-946-1743, FAX 914-946-0796

Seed, Fertilizer, Control Products, Equipment
Greg Moran: 914-331-4869
800-321-5325

ft D&S

f t L oft’s Seed, Inc.

Floratine Products, Nova Tee, Flymo,
Douglas Rollers, Trion Lifts
Dave Basconi: 203-250-TURF

John Farrell
P.O. Box 146, Bound Brook, NJ 08805
908-356-8700

DeLea Sod Farms
Joel Miller/Vinnie Sasso
444 Elwood Rd., East Northport, NY 11731
800-244-SO DS/516-368-8022

f t M etro M ilorganite Inc.
Rick Apgar/Scott Apgar/Joe Stahl
365 Adams St., Bedford Hills, NY 10507
914-666-3171, FAX 914-666-9183

Double Eagle E quipm ent Co., Inc.
Carl Wallace, Vice President
Wallingford, CT 06492
203-265-6006

M ontco/S urf- Side/Zap!
Surfactants & Defoamcrs
Box 404, Ambler, PA 19002
Bob Oechsle: 215-836-4992, FAX 215-836-2418

f t Down To Earth

f t Nassau Suffolk T u rf Services, Inc.

All Phases of Golf Course Construction
David GriiTin
914-576-7693

Frank Marra
Turf Supplies & Equipment Rentals
516-286-1052, PAGER 516-278-4766

f t Eastern Land M anagem ent Inc.

Nor-Am Chemical C om pany/A gr Evo
David J. Sylvester
311 Carriage Dr., Kensington, CT 06037
203-828-8905

Bruce Moore
Golf Course Renovation & Construction
203-924-7272
Egypt Farms, Inc.
Topdressing, Construction Mixes, Bunker Sand,
Computerized Soil Blending
White Marsh, MD 21162, 800-899-7645 (SOIL)

Partac G olf Course Top-Dressing
Kelsey Park, Great Meadows, NJ 07838
Jim Kelsey: 800-247-2326/908-637-4191
Bill & Joe Carriere: 914-937-2136

f t Emerald Isle, Ltd.

P.I.E. Supply Company
Artie deAtienza/Steve Smith
243 W oodm ontRd., Milford, CT 06460
203-878-0658

Bill Middleton
2153 Newport Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103
800-628-GROW

f t E /T Equipm ent Co.
John Ferrucio/Bemie White
425 S. Riverside Ave., Croton-on-Hudson, NY
914-271-6126, FAX 914-271-6146

(§ )

Tee to Green

f t Pro-Lawn Products, Inc.

10520

November/December1994

Richard Cooke
Turf & Ornamental Products
914-883-5881, FAX 914-883-5943

f t Rhone-Poulenc Co ./C H I P CO
Greg Hutch
877 Yellowbank Rd., Toms River, NJ 08753
908-929-4657

I
I
I

f t SAV-A-TREE
Complete Tree & Shrub Care, Naturally
Westchester: 914-666-8202
NJ: 201-891-5379 CT: 203-661-6755

I
I

f t Sawtelle B rothers Inc.
Jim Rock
21 E. Dudleytown Rd., Bloomfield, CT 06002
800-999-TURF

f t Shemin Nurseries Inc.
Horticultural-Irrigation Supplies
Jim Hespe: 203-531-7352
1081 King St., Greenwich, CT 06831

f t Stephen Kay, G o lf Course Architects
Renovation, Master Planning, New Golf Courses
495 New Rochelle Rd., Office 2B
Bronxvillc, NY 10708,914-699-4437

f t Steven W illand, Inc.
Bruce Pye
23 Route 206, Augusta, NJ 07822
201-579-5656

f t Tee and Green Sod, Inc.
Bcntgrass, Fescue, Rye, Sod Blends, Washed Sod
P.O. Box 418, Exeter, RI 02822
David Wallace: 401-789-8177

& The Scotts Company
Steve DiVito: 203-723-5190
Tom Marmelstein: 516-679-1961

f t The Terre Com pany o f NJ, Inc.
Byron Johnson Jr.
206 Delawanna Ave., Clifton, NJ 07014
Office: 201-473-3393 Home: 203-748-5069

f t Tuckahoe T u rf Farms, Inc.
Bentgrass for Greens, Tees, & Fairways
Fine Fescue, Rye, Bluegrass, Washed Sod
Skip Deubel: 800-243-7582

f t T u rf Products C o rp ./T O R O
George Gorton, Irrigation/Al Tretera, Equipment
P.O. Box 1200, Enfield, CT 06083
800-243-4355/203-763-3581

f t T u rf Products C orporation
Ernie Rizzio
47 Howell Rd., P.O. Box 296
Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046, 201-263-1234

f t Valley View Greenhouse
Frank Amodio
RT 123, RR 2, Box 27, So. Salem, NY 10590
914-533-2504/914-533-2526

f t W.A. Cleary Chemical Co.
Robert Leslie: 201-746-6734
1049 Somerset St., Somerset, NJ 08873
908-247-8000/800-524-1662

f t W estchester Ford T ractor Inc.
John Apple/Ray Beaudry
Meadow St., Goldens Bridge, NY 10526
914-232-7746

f t W estchester T u rf Supply, Inc.
Bob Lippman Sr./B ob Lippman Jr.
P.O. Box 198, Lincolndale, NY 10540
Office: 914-248-7476 Mobile: 914-649-0303

f t W hite C ontractors
Golf Course Construction & Renovation
P.O. Box 484, Old Greenwich, CT 06870
James E. Morris Jr.: 203-869-8808/914-234-0092

f t W ilfred M acD onald, Inc.
Dennis DeSanctis/Chris Santopictro
340 Main Ave., Clifton, NJ 07014
201-365-6801
f t Denotes M etG C SA member